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botte

British  
/ bɔt /

noun

  1. fencing a thrust or hit

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Geno Auriemma stepping onto the court to spike a water botte, that helped them, too.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2023

In one of the immense labyrinthine cellars is a botte for wine capable of containing five thousand litri.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 by Various

The coachmen of the little botte look so smiling and interested, so anxious to make things easy and comfortable.

From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King

In this guise it was inevitable that an almost superstitious belief in “secret foynes,” in the botte secr�te of certain practised duellists, should arise.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

I lyve yndeed; botte doe notte lyve for thee.

From The Rowley Poems by Chatterton, Thomas